Posts Tagged ‘american dissent’

Citizens protested Monday morning, March 25, 2013 outside the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in Detroit where Kevyn Orr, the newly appointed Emergency Financial Manager for the city was beginning his official first day on the job. Gathered outside during a blast of late-winter snow, a coalition of about 100 community, labor and faith-based supporters […]

Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street supporters celebrated in New York City with a weekend of rallies, marches and events beginning Sept. 15th, leading up to the movement’s official anniversary on September 17th.

Occupy Flint supporters set up tents on the lawn at Flint City Hall along Saginaw St. downtown, were the 52nd precinct polling station is located. Planning to occupy the space for 24 hours and “stand up for the right of Americans to freely assemble and voice their grievances,” they talked with voters and passed out […]

It was a day to be remembered. More than than 10,000 people, with some estimates as high as 100,000, packed the streets of downtown Oakland in response to the Occupy movement’s call for a general strike to shut the city down. Many union members and city workers joined the protest, which at times, took on […]

The movement returned to the Frank H Ogawa Plaza/Oscar Grant Park in front of Oakland City Hall after police forcibly evicted and razed their encampment earlier in the week. Click here to see the full gallery of images

October 29th, several hundred Occupy Oakland supporters took to the streets to speak out against the police state they feel has developed in Oakland, California. Clashes with the police earlier in the week saw OPD and officers from other districts shooting tear gas and firing rubber bullets into crowds of demonstrators. During those clashes, on […]

Nearly 200 Occupy Detroit protesters marched to the Bank of America branch in the Guardian Building a few blocks away from their camp at Grand Circus Park where they joined members of the UAW to demand an end to home foreclosures by the bank. In solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests that have been […]

Close to 300 Occupy Lansing supporters gathered around the Michigan Capital Building steps for the movement’s General Assembly Saturday, Oct 15th. Although this was their first large GA in Lansing, some protesters have been camped out, occupying Reutter Park a couple blocks away since Oct 9th. People with many political views and interests came from […]

In solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests that have been going on in the financial district of Manhattan since Sept. 17th and others that have sprung up around the world, Occupy Detroit supporters gathered at the Spirit of Detroit statue located at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in downtown. Close to 2,000 protesters […]

Occupy Grand Rapids, MI, is one of over 1,000 cities across the US to follow the lead of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City. The group plans to camp out and occupy Ah-Nab-Awen park in front of the Gerald R. Ford Museum along the Grand River, with daily marches into the downtown […]

Over 700 people arrested during march across Brooklyn Bridge. Photographs of the march onto Brooklyn Bridge and the mass arrests on it by the NYPD Oct 1st. Click here to see the full gallery Protestors are blocked from crossing the Brooklyn Bridge by the NYPD during an Originally planning to march across the bridge to […]

Photographs of daily life in Liberty Square during the Occupy Wall Street protests. Sept. 27th – Oct 1st. Click here to see the full gallery A protestor dances to the drum group playing in Liberty Square during the Occupy Wall Street protests. A protestor gets some sleep in Liberty Square during the Occupy Wall Street […]

Photos from Sept. 27th-30th. Daily life in Liberty Square and marches into the financial district in Manhattan with Occupy Wall Street. Click here to view the full gallery of images. March to the NYPD headquarters in protest of police brutality, Friday Sept. 30th. March to the New York Stock Exchange.